Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2020 Metro Manila Summer Film Festival

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The result was merge to Metro Manila Summer Film Festival. (non-admin closure) ASTIG️🙃 _{(ICE-T • ICE CUBE)} 03:30, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

2020 Metro Manila Summer Film Festival[edit]

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The planned annual film festival was supposed to be in early 2020 but COVID-19 pandemic cancelled that year's event that did not hold completely and suggesting to merge it to Metro Manila Summer Film Festival. ApprenticeWiki ^work 03:08, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and Awards. ApprenticeWiki ^work 03:08, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge, WP:NTEMP applies, cancellation does not mean that the supposed 2020 edition isn't notable, which reached a stage where the entry films were already made known to the public. However the film festival has yet to hold a successful inaugural edition. Merge without any prejudice of turning the cancelled 2020 edition back into a standalone article once an inaugural edition is successfully held.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 03:12, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, I think it would be suffice to just say it in the article that it was cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic. Either way, it has sufficient references and sources of material such as list of films and other details which can provide useful knowledge and data to the reader. It does not violate any Wiki rules. At some time too, consistency of entries would be needed. It would just be a tad bit different than other MMFF editions with lesser categories and sections. --Likhasik (talk) 03:57, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 04:31, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. To be fair, we do have a standalone article about the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, even though it never officially happened either — but Cannes is a long-established film festival which did release a slate of films that were allowed to brand themselves as official selections of Cannes, and it did stage an outdoor screening series of some of the program on the Croisette later in the year, so there's some real context for how that cancelled event could keep notability anyway. And also to be fair, this article was first created before the event was cancelled. But I'm not seeing a compelling reason why this one should be seen as independently notable enough to keep its own separate article permanently, especially since the overview article about the festival as a whole is a short and minimally sourced stub that could use some expansion anyway. Bearcat (talk) 14:34, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Metro Manila Summer Film Festival per above arguments. SBKSPP (talk) 00:30, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Metro Manila Summer Film Festival per Hariboneagle927 and Bearcat. CruzRamiss2002 (talk) 12:38, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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